Music of the Middle Ages

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Uniquely among histories of mediaeval music, this book is specifically devoted to the vast repertory of monophonic music. Too often treated as a preamble to polyphony, this music forms the basis of Europe's musical tradition. (A companion volume by F. A. Gallo, forthcoming in English translation, covers polyphonic music of the Middle Ages.)

Giulio Cattin outlines the birth and evolution of Christian chant in the early centuries of the Church and describes a number of partly independent Byzantine and Western chant traditions.

Fr Cattin's own background in the Church gives a particular authority to his writing on liturgical music, and he presents the latest original research without being too technical. In addition to offshoots of the main liturgical tradition such as tropes, metrical offices and liturgical drama, Fr Cattin covers the birth of secular music, first in Latin monody, and then in a growing variety of music in vernacular languages -- the Italian laude, and the lyrics of the Provencal troubadours, the French trouveres and the German Minnesinger. Chapters on early instrumental music and on the philosopher's view of the ars musica complete the book.

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Abbreviations	p. vii
The Origins of Christian Worship; Liturgy and Chant
The evidence of the early Christian sources	p. 1
The Jewish roots of Christian worship	p. 4
The early forms of Christian chant	p. 8
Liturgy and chant after the Edict of Milan	p. 13
Hymnody	p. 17
Christian Chant at Byzantium and in the Western Churches
Greco-Byzantine chant	p. 21
Old Roman (paleo-Roman) chant	p. 26
Ambrosian (Milanese) chant	p. 31
The ancient chant of Aquileia and Benevento	p. 38
Ancient Hispanic (Mozarabic) and Gallican chant	p. 42
Gregorian Chant
Gregory the Great	p. 48
The liturgy of the Western churches in the Carolingian period: Franco-Roman chant	p. 53
From oral tradition to neumatic notation	p. 56
Notation: problems of derivation and regional variation	p. 60
Neumes and their classification	p. 63
Neumes and words	p. 69
Neumes and Gregorian time	p. 72
Neumes and Gregorian rhythm	p. 76
Modal theory and structure	p. 79
Classical forms of the Gregorian repertory	p. 87
Decline and revival	p. 94
Liturgico-Musical Innovations of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries and Their Development; Secular Monody in Latin
Sequences	p. 101
Tropes	p. 110
Metrical and dramatic offices	p. 116
Liturgical drama	p. 120
Non-liturgical Latin monody	p. 127
Monody in Vernacular Languages; Instruments; the Ars Musica
Troubadour and trouvere lyric	p. 132
Monody in the German-speaking countries, the Iberian peninsula and England	p. 141
Italian poetry: laude	p. 145
Musical instruments	p. 152
The ars musica in the Middle Ages	p. 157
Readings
The jubilus in St Augustine	p. 162
From the De institutione musica of Severinus Boethius	p. 163
From the Institutiones of Cassiodorus	p. 166
From the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville	p. 169
From the Epistola de ignoto cantu of Guido d'Arezzo	p. 175
An example of dramatised liturgy	p. 179
Evidence for musical customs in Italy	p. 182
From the Ars musica of Gill da Zamora	p. 185
Glossary	p. 190
Notes	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 239
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